[Owen Taylor] > Haakon Riiser wrote: > >I have a collection of old bitmap fonts (BDF format) that I'd like > >to use with fontconfig. The problem is that the fonts' glyphs > >are replaced with some other system font when CHARSET_REGISTRY > >and CHARSET_ENCODING is not equal to "ISO8859" and "1". I tried > >setting LC_ALL to all sorts of things, but that didn't have > >any effect. The fonts in question are in IBM codepage 437; in > >this particular case, I could just edit the fonts and specify > >ISO8859-1, but I don't understand why I have to lie about the > >charset to please fontconfig. > > > >Is this a bug, or can I fix it by editing ~/.fonts.conf or > >something like that? Btw, my OS is Slackware Linux 10.1, which > >uses X.org 6.8.1. > > Neither a bug nor something you can fix without reencoding the > fonts to Unicode (ISO10646-1). fontconfig only supports a couple of > encodings other than Unicode. > > The complexity and overhead to support all the encodings that BDF fonts > are found in just doesn't make sense considering their legacy > status. Just using the font as if it were ISO10646-1 would be good enough. Should't that be a trivial patch? It is, at least, much better than the current behavior, which I don't see any use for. -- Haakon
